Greedy Mick

A very happy Christmas to everyone x . As I've not celebrated Christmas for a few years I've finally got round to it 🙂 Room is decorated and all My family coming round. For the first time since divorce I am really looking forward to it. And as I chef here's my menu. Ps absolutely everything made from scratch lol

You don't see many issues of j d Martin by yourself 😁

Glad you have found them. I can't imagine what you went through.. Great news 👏

At all-niters? Sorry couldn't resist 😜

I've been asked about this so many times but I've never put it in writing.. I've been into Northern since I was a young lad. First niter May 1980 as a 15 year old and went every week until 1987 when I met and started dating someone who was to become my wife and mother to my sons. ( enough of that) I stopped going to niters after we bought our first house in 1988 and as we were saving for our wedding I almost stopped going anywhere soul orientated. But we used to love going to car boot sales, I occasionally found the odd motown or soul records but nothing exciting until March 1989 when we were at a car boot in Oadby, Leicestershire and I saw a record box with a piece of card sticking out saying "soul 45's" I thought to myself, yeah whatever and proceeded to have a look, there were 11 records of only which there was only 1 that I knew, which was jimmy Norman, you know I'm in love on little star, so I asked the grey haired old gentleman how much for all 11 and he said £5 so I bought them all. Once I got home I played jimmy Norman and then the rest of them one by one thinking wow these are good until I dropped the stylus on mac staten and the nomads there she goes on prelude.. now you have to remember at the time this was butch's Bobby Angele cover up.. it was just like the moment in the film when he uncovers the Salvadors I was swearing and dancing around the front room thinking f##£ing hell. I got told off for swearing too much lol but I was lost for words. The next day I took it to show Rudzy in his shop in Leicester and he was as astounded as I was.. Among the 11 records were Mac staten there she goes Jj Jackson let the show begin Pat Clayton someone else's turn Jimmy Norman I know I'm in love Sophisticates back up baby 4 others on little star star by jimmy Norman and Dorothy Berry and one on tjx which I can't remember off top of my head.. and 1 other which is eluding me at the moment. Now here is the really interesting thing, I saw the chap at another car boot about 3 weeks later and told him I loved the records and asked him if he had any other records and where did he get them. His reply was that during the 60s he worked at an American airbase in Cambridgeshire and the airmen used to bring all these 45's with them and left them behind when they left and as he liked soul and motown they used to give them to him.. I asked him if he had any more, his reply was sorry I sold loads of them and you had the last few.. To this day I wonder what else he had that he had sold and that someone had no idea what it was. Regards Mick.

Thanks for posting, find things like this really interesting

I always was told by one person that my vinyl copy was a boot and proper ones were styrene. Can anyone help me with this one please?

Such sad news.. Thoughts and prayers for family and friends. Some lovely words in the previous posts. May you find peace in that big allniter in the sky, Alas its getting too full now, we have lost too many soulies the last few years Mick x

Think there was one in record sales 2 or 3 weeks ago, can't remember the seller, might be worth you scrolling through a couple of pages,

It's amazing what you can find at car boot sales. Have no idea how one could turn up in Leicestershire although it was the late 80s.

I found a black Gamble issue many years ago. At the time nobody liked it as too slow but I kept it as it is so so soulful on both sides. I personally prefer I'm a dreamer. There's a chant copy on manship auction at the moment for just over 2k. Never realised how rare it was on either label

The last professionals I saw for set sale was £5k on raresoul 45's. So at auction I have no idea

I have no idea how much especially the prices records are fetching, how much would a professionals or soulettes fetch. Think I need to buy a euro millions ticket

Hope it didn't end up like Don Gardner

I'm also amazed how much Bobby Burn is currently at. I know it's an absolute amazing cross over sound but I bought a black Gamble issue for a lot less than that as it was an unknown and too slow at the time. The prices being fetched are going through the roof now, where will it end?

Really appreciate that, Really interesting, Think the demo above has already broken many records 🤪

Whenever I have seen mick h play his demo I can't remember a skip . But at a niter my mind isn't at its best 👁👁🤪 My next question is how do you tell an original apart from the 70s reissue??

Regarding the skip at end . I've been listening to all the ones posted on YouTube but I can't find one where I noticed it, so does that mean that they have posted reissues? Or are there more good ones rather than the ones that skip?

Well we had the theme from Joe 90 . So how about themes from thunderbirds and fireball XL5. We might as well see how low we could have gone.

Just walked through my garden and saw this false widow spider trapping a wasp. Sorry for the quality as I only got my phone on me

Oooooooops. I accidentally made an acetate unplayable by cleaning it with isopropanol . 😭😥

Another big loss to the scene. And Another Soulie goes to the great all niter in the sky. Love and prayers to his family and friends x

Thoughts and prayers. From my family and I Mick.

This was my guess as well 😁

I have one like this. Got it from Keb. Got the royal esquires one one side and the delco's on the flip. Although I have the originals of both I like to keep it as keb used to play it . I'll try to find it later